Airline Pilot Sets Record For Ocean Trek
NEW YORK July 1 Captain Charles A Thompson 37 year old American Export Airlines pilot set a new record for a scheduled flight from Feynes Eire to New York covering 3075 miles in 18 hours 16 minutes flying time The previous record of 18 hours 43 minutes was held by Captain Charles F Blair Jr of the same airline Thompson carried 2746 rounds including 19 passengers from Africa and a soldiers mail averaging 169 miles per hour Total time elapsed was 21 hours 26 minutes with a stop per airline officials
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Eire
Charles F. Blair, Jr
Thompson
Africa
Senator Jackson Aims for Governor Post After Appointive Start
Senator Jackson, appointed last January to fill the Van Nuys vacancy, has been chosen Democratic nominee for governor. He resides in Fort Wayne. Democratic leaders plan a brisk convention, hoping to wrap up in three days with preopening spade-work in the week before the event.
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Senate
Frederick van Nuys
Fort Wayne
Weather Forecast for North Carolina
Partly cloudy and hot across North Carolina Sunday and Monday with scattered afternoon or evening thunder showers Monday and in the mountains Sunday.
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North Carolina
War progress across fronts and heavy Saipan toll
The war report notes German retreat into Minsk with 183,930 Nazi deaths or captures, Soviet advances in White Russia, and a continuing but costly Pacific push as Saipan tightens under Allied assault. U S Marine and Army losses reach 9,752 with 1,474 dead in two weeks, while Japanese pressure rises in China and Formosa air actions escalate.
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Moscow
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China
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Formosa
Germans Press On Around Caen As Allied Fronts Shift
Brigadier reports describe Rommel taking field command after Dollmann’s death as German forces hit both flanks of the Odon River bridgehead on a 15 mile front between Caen and Villers-Bocage. American troops advance to La Forge and near St Lo while Allied naval fire and air activity intensify along the Caen coast and Cherbourg region.
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Federal Communications Commission
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Cherbourg
WASPS React To Sidelining Of Training Program
Four would be WASPS who came to Sweetwater for training asked for a free trip home after the army cancelled the Women Airforce Service Pilots program. They urged American women to contact congress to reestablish the program and said 53 women nationwide were affected. They stated many had sold homes cars and businesses to enlist and had spent about $500 each on readiness and equipment.
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Tex
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Airforce Service
Texas
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Southern Democrats may back Farley if seated at convention
E. G. Germany, former Texas Democratic committee chairman, said Texas and other Southern delegates would back James A. Farley for President if provided voting seats at the convention. He added that if barred, Southern Democrats favor Sen. Harry F. Byrd as their candidate.
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Tex
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Germany
Texas
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James A. Farley
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Real Air Age to Come After War Ending
Postwar aviation is expected to surge with faster planes louder routes and lower travel costs. Civilian airlines will resume with war planes freed for limited use and routes expanding to transoceanic hops. Flight times coast to coast may shrink and cargo fleets rise aided by Martin Mars C-54 and future passenger designs.
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Pacific Coast
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Japan
Soviet Front Advances across Belarus and Finland Fronts
Soviet communiques report the third White Russian army toward Minsk driving along the Berezina river front and Borisov fall after fierce street fighting. Rokossovsky’s forces claimed 12,000 more German captives in the south, with over 35,000 captured on the southern front. northern operations near Lake Ladoga and Onega also yielded 30 plus localities.
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Minsk
Orsha
Berezina
Borisov
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Comunique
Novsky
Berezino
Mogilev
Polotsk
Ladoga
Onezhskoe
Onega
Moscow
Pryazha
Ideas Spirit Thomas Jefferson Wrote into the Declaration
Washington report recalls Thomas Jefferson’s late 1787 letter from Monticello predicting the Declaration’s ideas would awaken people to self government. The piece traces Jefferson’s views on liberty, science, and equal rights amid 1944 wartime global struggles for freedom.
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Star OF Hope
United Nations
H. C. Crawford
Central Press
Washington —World
Globe
Jefferson
Monticello
Roger C Weight
Seaboard Gasoline Supply To Be Cut
Philadelphia dispatch reports Atlantic Refining Company and Sun Oil Company plan to dramatically cut gasoline output next week as refineries shut down to retool and repair. Spokesmen say equipment has endured extreme heat and crude stocks are ample but cracking cannot proceed due to run down machinery.
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East
Atlantic Seaboard
Atlantic Refining Company
Sun Oil Company
Coffee import volumes in Canada before the war
Before the war Canada imported about 40 million pounds of coffee annually, reflecting its heavy reliance on foreign beans for consumer markets and domestic roasters.
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Canada
Peace Era Unions Face Slump in Membership
Labor leaders warn war contract cutbacks will shrink union rolls across AFL and CIO. Builders like machinists and boilermakers, auto and ship workers, and steel unions saw wartime gains. they aim to maintain jobs and deter open shop drives while women workers face contracting prospects and seniority rules.
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Washington
Eng Eau
Labor UN 5
AFL
CIO
Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Builders and Helpers of
United Auto Workers
Tie less strike stalls at Chicago terminal still idle
Four teen tie less ticket clerks at the Union Motor Coach Terminal rejected a compromise offered by U S Labor Conciliator C A Aislip and remained idle for a second day as the company stood firm on its demand that men wear ties at work. The Mosquito fighter bomber has reached 350 miles per hour. Pratas Island lies 300 miles northwest of Luzon in a horseshoe shape.
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Union Motor Coach Terminal
United States
C. A. Aislip
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